Scandal Quotes

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  Salvador Dali

  Artist, World, Enough

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• Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

  Josh Billings

  Tea, Maids, Old Maids

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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Lust

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• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Friendship, Real, Who Your Friends Are

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, People, Blazing

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.

  Olivia

  Girl, Guy, Want

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• The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

  Moliere

  Silence, World, Sin

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• It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

  Moliere

  Secret, Sin

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• Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

  James F. Cooper

  Truth, Being True

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• Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, States

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.54

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• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip, Political, Morality

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

  Ouida

  Littles, Tongue, Neighbor

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.218

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• Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Dies

  Benjamin Rush, Henry J. Williams (1905). “A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life Or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr. Benjamin Rush, Born Dec. 24, 1745 (old Style) Died April 19, 1813”

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• Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

  Lord Byron

  Form, Dissection, Subjects

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.8

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• The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are no way at all. If Christianity would only move one small step toward a more tolerant ecumenicalism and exchange the definite article the for the indefinite article a, the scandal would be over, and the world and Christianity could become friends. However, whenever this occurs, Christianity ceases to be Christianity, Christ is denied, and the world is without a Savior.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Moving, Way

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• In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Thieves, Cases, Robbery

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.106, Oxford University Press

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• Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

  Francis Quarles

  Hatred, Division, Ruins

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.49

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• The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

  Chris Chocola

  Oil, Stories, Months

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• No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

  William Shakespeare

  Particular

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• You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hug, Fawns

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.168, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Speech, Used, Beats

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• As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Secret, Credit, Gains

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.224

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• Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

  Ovid

  Snow, Rolling, Add

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• There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Years, Names

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128

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